estimated while controlling for the macroeconomic environment. An increase in bank' balance sheet risk is shown to increase the …

both bank and country-level data. As outright bank failures have been rare in Europe, the paper introduces a novel dataset … are that complementing bank specific vulnerabilities with indicators for macro-financial imbalances and banking sector … vulnerabilities improves model performance and yields useful out-of-sample predictions of bank distress during the current financial …

and are more resilient to negative shocks than its less efficient peers. For this purpose, we measure a bank … results provide evidence to the importance of swiftly restoring bank profitability in euro area crisis countries through … addressing high non-performing loans ratios and decisive actions on bank recapitalization …

deposits towards non-deposit liabilities. We find that unobserved time-invariant bank fixed effects are ultimately the most … important determinant of banks' capital structures and that banks' leverage converges to bank specific, time invariant targets …

This paper uses a unique dataset where credit rejections experienced by euro area firms are matched with firm and bank … characteristics. This allows us to study simultaneously the role that bank and firm weakness had in the credit reduction observed in … strong determinants of credit rejections, in the crisis period bank weakness made it harder to obtain external finance for …